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Author: EternalSeptember

Jan 22nd 2011 at 9:43:46 AM

->''Maybe because CS Lewis was a Christian in the early 20th Century he tried to somehow separate romance from sex, but that makes no sense. If you have love without sexuality, it is what he called Agape. Romance is sexuality. By definition.''

That's not true. For example, look at the TwoGirlRomanticFriendship trope, that is more than Phileo, but less that Agape, (that would be a messianic love for everyone) yet usually not sexualized.

Lewis himself called sexuality "Venus", that ''can be'' part of "Eros", but on its own, it is not one of the loves, just lust.

If you say that sexual and romantic feelings are the same thing, you inevitably say that [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Spaghetti_Kiss.jpg this picture]] is sexual, and [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/sample/sample-3c6fc2b11c2e75d673c32bdad2ccca52.jpg this picture]] is romantic.

The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_(love) wikipedia article on romance]] also cites psychologists who discuss romance as something different from sexuality.